Analysis on the causes of unmarketable Agricultural products

Since the beginning of summer this year, unsalable agricultural products have been reported again and again. From nectarines in a northern province to litchi in some parts of the south, it is a bumper harvest season, but farmers are happy and sad.

The unsalable sale of agricultural products is not only related to natural factors such as bad weather, but also man-made factors such as blind expansion of planting area resulting in oversupply, information asymmetry between supply and demand, blocked transportation and marketing channels, limited storage level, lack of processing capacity and difficult to digest on the spot. Of course, as a link between agricultural products and the market, the role of the government can not be ignored.

In many places, in order to promote the development of a certain agricultural characteristic industry, the grass-roots government pays attention to the area rather than the quality, seeks the scale and favors the market, and often creates tens of thousands of mu of industrial demonstration parks and hundreds of thousands of mu of industrial demonstration belts. In order to seek scale, some places do not hesitate to spend a large amount of financial funds to subsidize farmers, or even carry out "through-train" subsidies from planting to harvest, where farmers only need to invest in labor costs. However, having scale does not mean having industry, and having products does not mean having a market. If farmers do not have a sense of cost, they will have no sense of risk. For a while, planting is hot, and when melons are ripe and piled up, who will pay the bill becomes a problem.

Under the condition of market economy, both production and marketing are the protagonists, in which the government should be good information personnel, give full play to its own advantages, analyze and judge market demand information for growers to make materials according to orders, and be good liaison personnel, so that the seller and the grower can communicate in a timely and barrier-free manner, and connect the scattered market resources together. Only when planting is effectively docked with a series of links, such as scientific research, sales, transportation, processing, warehousing and so on, can a joint force of industry be formed. In addition, the government should also be good waiters and do a good job in serving various industrial elements. For example, farmers' professional cooperatives are the natural "matchmaker" between enterprises and farmers, which is not only a miniature version of enterprises, but also preliminary entrepreneurial farmers, with the same funds, it may bring stronger market competitiveness to support cooperatives than to subsidize farmers separately.

In the final analysis, with regard to matters such as the cultivation and sale of agricultural products, the government should do something and not do something. It should neither give up nor do everything. The key is to act in accordance with the laws of the market.